Traffic at Stonehenge has put Britain's most famous prehistoric monument on a list of the world's most threatened sites. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett /ReutersFrom The Guardian:
Britain's failure to deal with road traffic around the prehistoric stone circle is condemned as 'a national disgrace'.
The traffic-choked roads still roaring past Stonehenge in Wiltshire have earned the world's most famous prehistoric monument a place on a list of the world's most threatened sites.
The government's decision to abandon, on cost grounds, a plan to bury roads around Stonehenge in a tunnel underground and the consequent collapse of the plans for a new visitor centre, have put the site on the Threatened Wonders list of Wanderlust magazine, along with the 4x4-scarred Wadi Rum in Jordan, and the tourist-eroded paths and steps of the great Inca site at Machu Picchu in Peru.
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